2024年8月25日 · In this stunning image, which includes observations taken in infrared and visible wavelengths, Hubble has captured M60 (the large, diffuse galaxy at the center) along with the bluish spiral galaxy NGC 4647 (upper right). NGC 4647 is about two-thirds the size of M60 — or roughly the size of the Milky Way galaxy — and is much less massive.

Messier 60 or M60 (also designated NGC 4649) is a in the constellation . It has an apparent visual magnitude of 8.8 and its angular diameter is 7x6 arc-minutes. M60 lies at an estimated distance of 60 million light years. The Equinox 2000 coordinates are RA= 12h 43.7m, Dec= +11° 33´ which makes M60 best seen during the spring.

2002年4月23日 · It has a mass of about 10 billion suns, and its small bright nucleus falls into the least energetic class of Active Galactic Nuclei. This galaxy was the host of 15th magnitude Type I supernova 1979a. The M-60 - NGC 4647 pair makes up Arp 116, and is classified by Arp as one of his "Elliptical and E-like galaxies close to and perturbing spirals."

2015年6月14日 · A double nebula, in the centre of Virgo‘s left wing, lying np [north preceding, NW] and sf [south following, SE], about 2′ or 3’ from centre to centre, the preceding one [NGC 4647] being extremely faint. The following, or brighter one, is that seen and imperfectly described by Messier in 1779, and is nearly between two telescopic stars ...

A most curious double nebula with 3' distance from center to center, but the nebulae join with very faint nebulosity. The fainter [NGC 4647] rather oval. Smyth : CCCCLVII [457].

M60 is one of the brightest and largest elliptical galaxies in the Virgo Cluster of galaxies. M60 spans about 120,000 light-years across and contains a massive population of old stars. The galaxy is approximately 55 million light-years away from Earth and has an apparent magnitude of 9.8, making it visible with a small telescope.

2013年9月24日 · The densest galaxy in the nearby universe may have been found. The galaxy, known as M60-UCD1, is located near a massive elliptical galaxy NGC 4649, also called M60, about 54 million light-years from Earth. This composite image shows M60 and the region around it, where data from...

Galaxies on the right and left hand sides are M59 and M60 respectively. And M60 has small companion spiral galaxy of NGC4647 just north west of it. Both galaxies are simple elliptic, so they show you only nebula like images, and it can be realized that M59 is …

2021年5月6日 · Messier 60 is a giant elliptical galaxy in the Virgo constellation. It's best viewed in spring. According to NASA, M60 has a diameter of 120,000 light-years and is as massive as one trillion suns. At its center is a supermassive black hole with a mass 4.5 billion times that of our sun. It's easy to…

2014年9月17日 · This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the massive elliptical galaxy Messier 60 (also called M60, or NGC 4649). M60 is 120 thousand light-years across and contains an estimated 400 billion stars. Highlighted in the inset is the dwarf galaxy M60-UDC1 which orbits the giant elliptical.